Supporting students, startups and companies to develop new edtech ideas

Category Archives: Start-up

A guest post from Tripti Maheshwari, Co-Founder,Student Circus Ltd After the incredible product workshop in July, it was time for the most awaited day of the Jisc Edtech Startup Programme – sales day! Day 3: A usual start to the day at EdSpace with coffee, croissants and conversations. With the room full of Jisc staff and … Read more

A guest post from Lotis Bautista Co-founder and Chief Community Officer, Volo Group Mid-way through April we were ecstatic to find ourselves as one of five companies to win a place on the Jisc Edtech Startup Programme. Fast-forward to the start of the programme in May and it has already proven itself to be a … Read more

We ran the competition and announced the winners, and now its time to get down to the hard work. Our 2018 programme kicks-off on Thursday 24th May and I’m excited and looking forward to working with our winners: Blackbullion – a learning platform for students to get control of their money. Oslr – an app to facilitate … Read more

We have just selected our new cohort of start-ups for the Edtech Launchpad start-ups programme for 2018. The selection process took place at Jisc Digifest 2018 on the 6 March 2018. Having already been shortlisted, nine companies presented to an interview panel of experts and pitched to the Digifest audience as part of the process. … Read more

Today we hear from Atif Mahmood, Founder and CEO of Lumici, and a recent graduate of the latest Jisc/Emerge start-up programme. Lumici is an online collaborative lesson planning platform enabling teachers to use and modify existing lesson templates from other teachers. Just like Google has solved collaborative working in the enterprise, Lumici is solving it for lesson … Read more

Edtech Launchpad is about supporting students, start-ups and companies to develop new edtech ideas. Its split into three parts: Student ideas competition open to all UK students 16+, judged in categories schools, colleges, universities – Summer 2018 – register your interest now. Follow the conversation on Twitter using #studentideas Running for the fourth time our start-ups competition open to … Read more

Welcome to our Edtech Launchpad blog. We will use this blog to share participant journeys and programme updates. Our first post is a guest blog from one of our 2017 edtech start-up accelerator cohort, which has been running Jun – Nov 17. Martin Campbell from Hubbub talks about his experience: Over the past six months, I’ve … Read more